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On Wednesday, Republicans who control the state House efficiently batted aside family-friendly amendments to a bill they fraudulently claimed was an attempt to help disabled kids and their families -- but was really just another sham attempt by culture warriors to restrict a woman's right to choose. "Republicans are pro-life until birth, then you're on your own," fumed Rep. Peter Schweyer, D-Lehigh, who saw his attempt to amend a bill banning abortion because of a diagnosis of Down syndrome, frustrated by the GOP majority.
It is possible the words "He cared deeply and passionately about the federal budget" have never before been strung together in the English language. But if they had been written somewhere, it would have been about House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Honesty, particularly honesty in accounting, is at a premium in Washington these days, which makes the role of the Congressional Budget Office even more crucial than usual. As a methodologically rigorous, politically independent watchdog of the federal government's fiscal situation, the CBO is one of the last entities in a hyper-partisan capital still dedicated to telling truths when others can't or won't.
When the FBI, after a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, raided the offices and hotel room of Trump attorney Michael Cohen, the thud of the other shoe dropping sent ripples along Pennsylvania Avenue, down the National Mall and over the Potomac River into Northern Virginia, where more than a few veterans of earlier political wars likely grimaced at what could come next. No one should feel good about what's happening now.
The 2012 murder of 26 young children and teachers in their Newtown, Connecticut, classrooms was succeeded by purposeful inaction in Washington. The Senate contemplated a rational, if arguably tangential, effort to require background checks for all gun purchases, a proposal supported by more than 80 percent of Americans.
We were surprised to read a Sun editorial that criticized the Safe Communities Act for something it doesn't do at all. The editorial argues that under existing law, police can hold undocumented immigrants for up to 12 hours in response to a detainer request from Immigration & Customs Enforcement .
For five years, Sen. Ron Wyden has pushed Congress to address how U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management leaders often must divert money from other programs, including fire prevention and forest management budgets, to cover the increasingly high cost of fighting massive wildfires. The Wildfire Disaster Funding Act was a part of the $1.3 trillion federal spending package passed by federal lawmakers and signed by the president late last month.
Mick Mulvaney's attacks on consumer financial protection are illegal as well as wrong. Donald Trump is ignoring the law Congress wrote to prevent this.
The SDP's founding 'Gang of Four', Bill Rodgers, Dr David Owen, Roy Jenkins and Shirley Williams, in Perth It's a story which has had more comebacks than Kylie Minogue. It's the old new centrist party ruse.
Gov. Kay Ivey may believe she doesn't need to debate her opponents for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, but voters deserve every opportunity to be able to compare the candidates for the office. The Republicans are having a race to see who will be their party's nominee for governor come the Nov. 6 general election.
The United States Senate returns to work this week. Time to talk about President Donald Trump's nominations again - especially those to the federal courts.
At about 6 a.m. last Friday, I was riding with GBI Task Force Agent Damon Morris to go turkey hunting in Meriwether County. As we were cruising down Highway 27, I noticed that he had a copy of HB 673 in the back seat.
Monday's news that FBI special agents in New York executed search warrants on the office of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is just another reason why, as an old colleague of mine said recently, "If I were the subject of a Bob Mueller-led investigation, I'd be peeing my pants." What today's action demonstrates is that the special counsel is not only conducting a serious investigation of Russia interference in our democracy, and of those U.S. persons who may have colluded or conspired or otherwise enabled it, but a thorough one.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he supported sending the military to guard the U.S.-Mexico border. In an era where global crises are expelling immigrants from their homelands and forcing them to seek refuge elsewhere, this proposed militarization of the American border is an unjust, inhumane act.
John Baer has written about politics and government for the Daily News since 1987. Neither subject ever fails to provide him with stories of policies and politicians walking on or skirting by paths to perdition.
With Speaker Paul D. Ryan backing a fragmented approach, the door could be closing on an infrastructure overhaul, Nellenbach and Varn write. Congress is beginning to give up on the idea of a sweeping infrastructure bill, pointing to the looming midterm elections and the funding boosts that passed in the recent omnibus package.
The talk of the town over the past week and days to come, especially for residents of Chiang Mai, is none other than the housing and office building project for judges and officials of the Region 5 Appeals Court in the forest at the foot of Doi Suthep mountain in Mae Rim district. The controversial construction project pits environment-conscious groups in the northern province against the Office of the Judiciary which serves as the "housekeeper" for the judiciary.